Southernization, Chinese Dynasties, Buddhism, Ming, Qing, Medieval Japan, Tokugawa, Silver Trade
228276880 | Developments associated with Southernization | Cotton, gold, Malay sailors, mathematics, compass, fine spices, silk, porcelain, sugar, gunpowder, printing | 0 | |
228276881 | Economic developments associated with Tang and Song China | Fast-ripening rice, porcelain, gunpowder, sailing, compass, silk, laquerware | 1 | |
228276882 | Religions of Tang and Song China | Nestorian, Manichaeans, Zoroastrian, Muslim communities; arrival of Buddhism; neo-confucianism | 2 | |
228276883 | Arrival of Buddhism in China | Via silk roads, construct small communities and temples between 100 BCE and 1000 CE | 3 | |
228276884 | The Development of Chinese Buddhism | Use taoist terms to familiarize Chinese, Chan Monastery becomes a popular school, discouraged by confucians and taoists, finally shut down in 840 | 4 | |
228276885 | Confucians VS Buddhists | Family life/monk hood, children/celibacy, China/India, relationships/individuality, temporal (wordly)/spiritual | 5 | |
228276886 | The Development of Neo-Confucianism | Doesn't persecute Buddhists, merges with Buddhist ideas, study Confucian and Buddhist works | 6 | |
228276887 | Mongol culture | Assimilation, muslim in Persia, kept China civil, vassal states (Russia) lingered behind, increased global interactions | 7 | |
228276888 | Ming (1368-1644) | After Yuan; Emperor Hongwu starts, models after traditional culture, Mandarins, Eunuchs, trade and agriculture are encouraged (at first), Yongle (encyclopedia), silver only for taxes, destroys boats, falls to the Manchu invaders | 8 | |
228276889 | Ming Expeditions | Little foreign trade within China, reconstruct Navy, Yongle establishes presence in Indian Ocean, Zheng He leads 7 trips, huge treasure ships, to impress others | 9 | |
228276890 | Rise of States | Band, tribe, chiefdom, state; states rise around 3700 BCE; population and agriculture influence gov't type | 10 | |
228276891 | What do states have? | Centralized, larger economic system (taxes), slavery, formalized laws, levels of administration, better technology, larger population | 11 | |
228276892 | Tyranny of Cousins | Honor, focus on family status, honor killings, inheritable positions | 12 | |
228276893 | Kleptocracy | A state that is focused on benefits for the leaders, not benefits for the state | 13 | |
228276894 | Iron Law of Latifundia | Rich get richer and poor get poorer unless taxes are redistributed | 14 | |
228276895 | Meritocracy | The basis of one's role in society is their own achievments | 15 | |
228276896 | Qing | Dual offices (Han/Manchu), essentially the same government, minority rule, conquers several other states | 16 | |
228276897 | Tokugawa, Edo (1600-1867) | Shoguns and emperors, Tokugawa Ieyasu leads, Bakufu government, regulation of Daimyo (alternate attendance), urbanization, fear of foreigners (excludes Dutch), social inversion, neo-confucians, floating worlds (red light districts), Jesuits arrive 1549, anti-Christian campaign in 1612 | 17 | |
228276898 | Silver Trade | mined by Spanish in Americas and Japanese, China trades for silver, Portugese trade at Good Hope, Spain trades in Manila, Japan trades in Nagaski, Chinese switch to silver currency, Single Whip Tax of 1570, weakens China | 18 | |
228276899 | Medieval Japan | population growth (new crops), feudal state, civil war, Daimyo and Samurai rule, Shintoism and Confucianism stay constant | 19 | |
228276900 | Micro-Isolation | Isolation of small areas due to mountainous, island, or vallied terrain (Japan) | 20 |